iZ'jO Management and Improvement, hy Tillage^ 



furrow, find each wheel of the cart will occupy another. As 

 the horfes and the cart-wheels will make the foil in the bot- 

 tom of the farrows immediatelv under the albas compaft, 

 pafs the fcarificalcr through, as before direfted, with only- 

 three long tines, or teeth, in the centre of the beam, then 

 ^vith one bout of the common plough reverfe the ridges and 

 cover the aflies. Let the land continue in this Hate until the 

 feafon fuit for fowiner. Then with the fled, as before, level 

 ■the tops of the ridges fo as to obtain a furface on each ridge 

 eighteen inches wide. Mr. Cooke's drill will fow two of 

 th6fe ridcjes at a time, two rows of turnips on each ridge, 

 nine inches from row to row, with an interval of twenty- 

 feven inches. The turnips, as foon as the rough leaf ap- 

 pears, ft)ould be harrowed acrofs the ridces with the fixed 

 ■harrow, then fcarified between the rows; and a few days 

 after thefc operations they fliould be hand-hoed, leaving the 

 plants in rows, finglc, and one foot apart. The intervals 

 •ihould be kept highly pulverized by alternate ploughings, 

 horfe-hoeingp, and fcarifying ; being careful, before the au- 

 tumnal rains commence, to throw all the mould from the 

 bottoms of the furrows uji to the ridges with a double mould 

 board pldligh. This will not only keep the land dry and 

 healthy all the winter ; but, as the horfes will walk in one 

 ■furrow, and each wheel of the carl will occupy another, the 

 turnips may be carted to thebullock-fheds without poaching 

 or injuring the land. 



Knowing the difficulty in thefe clayey foils of obtaining 

 •a fine tilth for fpring fovving, I Ibould recommend the fame 

 ridges, after the turnips are drawn, and carted home, to be 

 worked with the fixed harrow and roller, only fo as to obtain 

 a fine tilth five inches deep; and then to drill two rows of 

 oats, nine inches from row to row, leaving a furrow or in- 

 terval of twcnty-feven inches. When the oats are about two 

 inches above the furface, harrow acrois with the fixed har- 

 row, fcarlfy twice in a place between the rows of oats, and 

 roll the whole. After thefe operations, (bould weeds appear, 

 horfe-hoe with the flat hoes. When the oats are harvefted, 

 throw your ridces up high, like trenching in a garden, with- 

 out reverfing them, keeping the bottoms of the furrows clean 

 from mould, and laying the land perfedlly dry. In the firft 

 froft cart about twentv loads per acre of good horfe or bullock 

 dung, not too rotten', into the furrows ; fpread it; and as foon 

 as the froft is out of the land, harrow or fled down the tops of 

 the ridges, reverfe them, and cover the dung: the firft dry 

 \veaiher in i'ebruarv or March, fled down the tops of thefe 

 ridges, to obtain a furface of eighteen inches, and drill two 

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